I’m an author of romantic fiction, born in Germany and living in Athens and London. I’ve worked as a journalist, as social hostess on a cruise ship, as an insurance agent, as a translator and teacher… I love books, movies, computer games, history – and I feel at home everywhere in the world!

Fate brings Professor Angelopoulos and young Sally together in the middle of the desert: he is working on a dig, she was taking part in a motorbike rally. At first, Sally is more interested in the young men at the camp than in Professor Nikos and his ancient history – but some things are meant to be: although he could well be her father, they start falling in love with each other. But when they make a very rare historical find together, criminals appear on the scene, and young love is put to a tough test…

Their first romantic holiday on Crete turns out quite differently for Professor Nikos and his bubbly young girlfriend-assistant Sally from what they’d expected: first they discover an ancient shipwreck with a priceless cargo of very rare artefacts, and then Sally suddenly disappears – kidnapped, as it turns out, by a Cretan family involved in a deadly generations-old vendetta!